California vs. Occidental
California and Occidental first met in 1916 and have played 3 times; California leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s California 2–1, and California has won the last 2. Share
- California wins
- 2
- Occidental wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1916
- Longest streak
- 2 California
- Current streak
- 2 California
- Last 10 meetings
- California 2–1
- Most recent
- 1919
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 27.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At California
- 2–1 California’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1917 · Evening capital news, Boise, Idaho, Oct 21, 1917
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 18, 1919 | California 61, Occidental 0 | at California | ||
| Oct 20, 1917 | California 20, Occidental 0 | at California | ||
| Oct 28, 1916 | Occidental 14, California 13 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.